RHSA-2017:0021MediumCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free security update

Published
January 5, 2017
Last Modified
July 31, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2016-9445 →CVE-2016-9809 →CVE-2016-9812 →CVE-2016-9813 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-9445 — gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Integer overflow when allocating render buffer in VMnc decoder CVE-2016-9809 — gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Off-by-one read in gst_h264_parse_set_caps CVE-2016-9812 — gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: Out-of-bounds read in gst_mpegts_section_new CVE-2016-9813 — gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: NULL pointer dereference in mpegts parser

🎯 Affected products65

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-debuginfo-0:1.4.5-6.el7_3.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: This mitigation is only required if vulnerable gstreamer-plugins-bad-free and/or gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free packages are installed. For RHEL 7, sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-1.0/libgstvmnc.so sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvmnc.so For RHEL 6, sudo rm /usr/lib*/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvmnc.so Please note that this mitigation deletes the vulnerable VMware NC decoder, which removes the functionality to play VMware movie files.

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